To address your concern about High Prairie, at this moment the pine beetle has been found within 100 kilometres of our town. So you can see our concern.
One of the responses I heard at an earlier meeting today was that the anti-circumvention clause would look after that, that it would allow us to address the pine beetle. Yes, in the forest management regulations themselves it likely would, but it doesn't give us any more wood to ship across the border or any more right to ship any more wood across the border. What do we do with it? That's the problem. Alberta is going to be in the same position as B.C. is in right now.
Actually, I did attend a pine beetle summit in Calgary that was put on by the provincial government. They flew us out to B.C., and I met with some local mayors out there. With the devastation, they're standing around scratching their heads; they don't know what to do.
It's not only the lumber part of it either. It's siltation, dead forest, forest fires, floods, the whole shooting match. If you don't have ground cover....
In a couple of the towns, they had a wilderness tourism industry that they were really working on. I'm sure I don't know anybody in this room who'd want to camp in a dead forest; I sure as hell don't. That's one of the things.
How would it affect our town? We're a very small town of 3,000 people, though we do service approximately 17,000 in the surrounding area. But if you get rid of 600 jobs, I don't know what we'd do. I really don't.